It is typical in the case of both questions that LAS will not normally present you with clear-cut truths, but rather with sets of conditions and consequences that need to be analyzed and considered. In that sense, questions like the two given here are quite representative for many aspects of the Core curriculum. Questions during your studies may not be much more difficult than the ones presented here, but you will be asked to analyze them in greater depth. In any case, material in the Core curriculum will not normally be presented in a multiple choice format: most courses will have many problem-oriented, project-based and workshop-type elements involving a lot of discussion.
The Core area shapes the intellectual identity of the LAS program: It combines more practically oriented skills training with quite ambitious theoretical reflection, and aims to make both socially applicable. The goal of the two exercises was to give you a taste precisely of that combination: a theoretical question of knowledge, which, if you think about it, has quite far-reaching practical and maybe even ethical implications; and a question that starts out as a quite practical-looking model of communication for a workshop setting on public speaking, but should also inspire you to consider the assumptions we make when we use such models.
